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Flagler Judge’s Forgetting Closing Arguments in Fatal DUI Hit-and-Run Case Triggers Unusual Appeal to Reconstruct Hearing
Flagler County Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols omitted closing arguments during the March sentencing to 10 years in prison of Melvin Adona for a double-fatal 2023 hit-and-run. Digital recording systems stopped before the oversight was realized, leaving no official record of subsequen…
The Circuit Court in Flagler County is at the center of an unusual appeal of a sentence due to a judge forgetting to let the prosecutor and defense attorneys make their closing arguments in a wrenching sentencing hearing three months ago that shook up many people in the courtroom.
Last March 4, at the end of an 88-minute hearing, Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols sentenced Melvin Adona, 53, to 10 years in prison for the hit-and-run deaths of Jacqueline Martin, 50, and Georgette Fisher, 59. Adona struck them, along with Philip McClure, 48, who suffered grave injuries. …
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Sourced from FlaglerLive · indexed by Statura on June 23, 2026. Statura indexes Florida political news and tags it by industry and jurisdiction so government-affairs teams can monitor signal without scanning every outlet by hand. Read the full story at FlaglerLive ↗